AC's and Cuppa's Treks and Travels — Day Trips and Plane Trips

First Hours

To state the obvious, just because I am very good at that sort of thing, we’re here in Vancouver. In fact, it’s late afternoon of day two, so let me try to catch you up a bit on day one, the problem with these kinds of topics being how to say enough but not too much. If we say too much, I’m sure you’re adept at quick-scanning as you head on your merry ways. Which is good.

So, the flight went well. We both scored aisle seats and empty adjacent seats. What luck! I could shift this way and that and remain in relative comfort as I also switched from TV, to book, to iPod, to occasional converse.

The drive from the airport to the West End wasn’t harrowing. The girls live in a very urban area, but the sea and beach are just a block away. That’s English Bay, above, as seen in early evening of a cool and cloudy day. First, we hit Starbucks (this being a city of many cafés but few Tims), we walked along the bay and into the outer fringes of the famous Stanley Park. If it isn’t famous to you, I will tell you that the tourist guidebook declares that it is the second largest urban park in North America.

After dinner at Bayside Lounge, the four of us strode along English Bay in the other direction before heading back to rest in the 18th floor apartment. That’s Althegal and AC, himself, above and Cuppa by the same window, below. You can’t see a lot in these photos, but you can see that there are apartment buildings all around and mountains in the background (to the north).

If you hover over any photo, you should be able to connect to my Flickr page with even more photos, but I think that Cuppa will probably get around to posting more photos, probably with more prose than this, later on.

I don’t know how well we’ll do at keeping up with this blog or how thorough we’ll manage to be. Time will tell.